Test 1.

[azumods]

VALOR Your arrival at Lake Valor is met with no fanfare at all, nor are there any obstructions; it seems that Team Galactic has moved on from here, the area devoid of activity and strangely-dressed people for the time being. The area is also largely devoid of water. There's some, in the area that presumably was the lake once; however, it can hardly be called a proper lake now. There's a massive crater in the middle of the clearing that that now-unobstructed path through the woods takes you to; it's refilled some since whatever incident caused it, but the water is only about knee-high at the deepest and generally incapable of impeding you much if you should choose to wade into it. Whatever you choose to do, there's a massive, raised area in the middle of what's left of the lake, a rock formation of some sort; it's capable of being scaled with reasonably little difficulty. An opening is visible in the rock face, large and gaping, leading inwards and downwards into a cavern system of some sort. Your exploration starts now; time to see if there really is nothing worth reporting in the area.

Comments

[hyruglyphics]

[ Miphanus is... well, it's hard to read the expression of a single eyeball, but it's floating slower behind Zelda, as if caught between some skittishness and a reverent curiosity for what lies ahead. Zelda smiles for them and pats them to try to reassure them, but she's now thankful she doesn't have Likcitung out. Even if she's now curious. ]

Be strong, Miphanus. I know your heart is true.

[ She hopes.

... On this not though, while we're all pausing here, she's glancing around just to kinda check - are there any wild pokemon around his crater at all? any curiously dying Magikarp please no ]

[azumods]

[The Magikarp are dead. okay no it's not that kind of game I promise -

That said, there actually doesn't seem to be any wild Pokémon around the entrance of the cavern itself. Weird. (Or perhaps slightly less weird, given the reaction your Pokémon seem to be having.]

[hyruglyphics]

The wild ones seem to avoid this area as well. ... I wonder if this lake was always so dry, or if some force acted upon it...

[ Actually, as she takes some photos around here with the Slate, she does sort of try to do what she can to survey this. Does this look like it's a recent change to the lake (IE there's like dead algae/water plants/stuff is still kinda damp/etc or it's been like this for a while... ? ]

[azumods]

[It's been like this for a while.]

[hyruglyphics]

... Can this even be called a lake?

[ That said, it does seem like this is - well, if it's not natural, it's been like this for some time, so it's not like Saturn blew it up.

Probably. ]